While you might be able to find the Apple iPad mini with Retina display at a physical Apple Store, ordering it online from Apple's virtual retail establishment will result in a wait of about 5 to 10 business days before your order is shipped. That isn't such a terrible hardship though, when you consider that at AT&T, the wait is three to four weeks. Verizon isn't shipping new orders until December 2nd and Sprint customers will have to wait two weeks for the device to ship if they order it today.

At T-Mobile, things are definitely tighter, mostly because the tablet includes 200MB of free data each month as per the carrier's new policy for customers sporting tablets. At the nation's fourth largest carrier, the iPad mini with Retina display is on back order for 6 to 8 weeks.

Hopefully, Sharp's yield will improve and Apple will be able to max out the assembly line to churn out the device, which is expected to see red hot demand through the holiday shopping season.

Apple's online store shows the Apple iPad mini with Retina display shipping 5 to 10 business days after an order is placed

Theres only two reasons anyone would ever do that and they are 1. You're an android / nexus fanboy (which, as your name suggests, is you all over) or 2. You're on a budget...

Lets not kid ourselves here - when it comes to tablets the iPad has the market sewn up; and the iPad mini is a gorgeous device with an awesome ecosystem...Don't be blinded, Google don't give a cr@p about you kid..

Loooooool 1, i'm not a google fan 'as my name suggests' , i'm a nokia fan. 2, are you kidding me android tablets are outselling the ipads like 1:20 or something. 3, i'm not on budget (but if i were i'd get so much more for so much less with the nexus unlike so much less for so much more with i products), the reason that i don't like tablets is because i have a laptop and b.c i'm an architecture student and i use a lot of CAD softwares on it. which is also great for typing and gaming.

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